Poll: Optional Patch for Skyrim?

[SwimmingRock]

I'm arachnophobia.

You're Arachnophobia? You sound like a low budget supervillian =D

Oh, man. I have nothing to contribute to the thread, but your post accompanied by a Francis York Morgan avatar was just perfect. For all his talk of bad 80s movies, I could totally hear him make that remark and laughed my nuts off when I read it in his voice.

OT: Yeah, sure. Once they get the important fixes done, why not?

 

[Keepeas]

I don't know about most of you, but if I were to ask Bethseda just one little thing, JUST ONE, it'd be for them to make a (Optional)patch to remove those hideous spiders from the game. Now, before people start posting criticism please note:

-I'm Arachnophobic.

Some of you might post: "O'well, it's a game deal with it."

I've dealt with it in several occasions but in Skyrim spiders are 6 feet tall and jump on your face. NOW I know regular spiders do that IRL but they usually don't go over 4-6 inches. Arachnophobia is serious and I' FOR ONE think that if Bethseda were to make such patch they'd be removing the poison of one of their best games.

If you agree please leave a YAY or Nay to the thread thy's read.

You know...I have Kinemortophobia (fear of the moving dead).
I mean that's some freaky stuff...
However I'm not scared of any undead creatures in Skyrim....
I mean they aren't actually there in real life...

But I suppose you could always just download a mod that changes the spiders into something else.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

I don't know about most of you, but if I were to ask Bethseda just one little thing, JUST ONE, it'd be for them to make a (Optional)patch to remove those hideous spiders from the game. Now, before people start posting criticism please note:

-I'm Arachnophobic.

Some of you might post: "O'well, it's a game deal with it."

I've dealt with it in several occasions but in Skyrim spiders are 6 feet tall and jump on your face. NOW I know regular spiders do that IRL but they usually don't go over 4-6 inches. Arachnophobia is serious and I' FOR ONE think that if Bethseda were to make such patch they'd be removing the poison of one of their best games.

If you agree please leave a YAY or Nay to the thread thy's read.

There are multiple mods for this issue.

I'm actually on the Console since my computer's not much for gaming... And yes @Fiend Dragon I did mean Title Update

I have to admit, it wasn't a smart decision getting a console version. If your Arachnophobia is so bad that you can not play a video game depicting arachnids, why did you get Skyrim in the first place? Its a pretty safe bet that a fantasy game will have spiders as a monster, (blame J. R. R. Tolkien) and there is (an admittedly small) video showing a player killing a giant spider. As for not having a gaming rig, my laptop is four years old and doesn't meet the minimum specs for Skyrim, and I can still play the game.

 

[Kernalgohd]

I know its not the same, but I'm terrified of heights, but in games like skyrim, I absolutely LOVE going to the top of mountains and looking around (same thing for any other sandbox game with high places) Not saying to "Grow a pair" but couldnt you relish in the fact that your killing the things that freak you out with ease?

 

[Smeggs]

That is why I fuck spiders up with a flaming mace. I could use one of my various fire spells, but no. They need to be both squashed AND burned.

That is one serious case of aracnaphobia you've got there.

 

[Blondi3]

Sorry for the people that have arachnophobia but I doubt Bethesda would do this. Everyone else, stop crying.

I have honestly never understood why people play games like this, Oblivion, Fallout 3/FONV, Morrowind, etc, on consoles. Almost all of these games NEED mods. This, FONV (kind of) and MAYBE Morrowind are decent enough without them. Even then, I go out of my way to mod them to hell and back to cater to my own needs.

I understand that some people don't have the PCs to run them decently but I know others that DO and STILL refuse to play them on PC, only to have them turn around and complain about the game and it's features. I just scratch my head and go "uhh I don't have that problem, I modded it out. This is why I told you way before hand to buy it for PC."

PS: Sorry for rant and semi derail. It just got me thinking and apparently I've wanted to say this for a while.

 

[Risingblade]

I hope future DLC have dragon size spiders...

 

[jawakiller]

To quote a certain man:

"O'well, it's a game deal with it."

Seriously, they can't hurt you. They're not real. Besides, arachnophobia is irrational. Spiders aren't dangerous. Even the big ones aren't that bad.

Even that one would have trouble killing you.

 

[cswurt]

There are people out there who are afraid of everything.

You can even find some people who are afraid of curtains.

Should they make an optional patch to replace window curtains with bears?

Just get over it.

 

[Conza]

I don't know about most of you, but if I were to ask Bethseda just one little thing, JUST ONE, it'd be for them to make a (Optional)patch to remove those hideous spiders from the game. Now, before people start posting criticism please note:

-I'm Arachnophobic.

Some of you might post: "O'well, it's a game deal with it."

I've dealt with it in several occasions but in Skyrim spiders are 6 feet tall and jump on your face. NOW I know regular spiders do that IRL but they usually don't go over 4-6 inches. Arachnophobia is serious and I' FOR ONE think that if Bethseda were to make such patch they'd be removing the poison of one of their best games.

If you agree please leave a YAY or Nay to the thread thy's read.

Just in case someone hasn't mentioned it dude, there's a fan mod replacing the spiders with bears - go check it out at skyrimnexus.com, if its still there, problem solved.

No Bethusda shouldn't have to cater for arachnaphobics, especially when there's a fan mod for it, and little demand beyond that. I won't say 'deal with it' because thats cruel, and frankly unnecessary in this scenario, go confirm whether or not that bear patch exists, if so, apply it, and you're done.

 

[sb666]

Hey someone who agrees with me i also hate the radscorpions in fallout.

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=28

there's already a mod
also, doesnt your fear of them make the spiders such a great enemy?
im terrified of bees/wasps, so whenever im pounced upon by one in a game it gives me great pleasure to overcome it. (for example the giant wasp queen in the first fable)

I, too, am terrified of wasps. Yes, me, a twenty year old two hundred pound man, afraid of something that weighs less than a pound and can barely hurt me. I'm not even allergic! And it felt great to kill the gigantic wasps in Metroid Prime 1 and 2. Oh, yes, and what about this fellow?

That son of a ***** scared me more than anything else, so badly that the first time I saw him I ran screaming from the room. But, damn it, I beat him, and it felt great, and I was a little less scared of bees.

OP, what better way to face your fears than in the game? Fight them or sell the game and buy, say, Lego Star Wars.

Also i cant stand wasps either.

 

[tobi the good boy]

Really ... I was really disappointed I couldn't keep one as a pet.

Spoiler: DB Spoiler

Poor fluffy, my spider of the Dark Brotherhood perished in the great fire

 

[sb666]

Actually now that i think about it at least they were not like these ones.

 

[Denamic]

Arachnophobia is serious and I' FOR ONE think that if Bethseda were to make such patch they'd be removing the poison of one of their best games.

No, it is not serious.
You think it is serious, but it is not.
Phobias are silly by definition, as they are irrational.
Spiders are not the 'poison' of their game.
The same way water, trees, darkness, wolves, or sharp objects are not the 'poison'.

Deal with it.
No, really, deal with it.
Phobias are stupid and a waste of energy.
Get rid of it.

 

[MammothBlade]

I really can't believe how many people complain about this. I'm afraid of heights, but I didn't ask for anyone to remove the quest on the Throat of the World.

You know why? Because it's a game.

This. I mean, I have social phobia/anxiety, in real life simply talking to so many people face to face would make me want to hide in an uninhabited cave and never come out again, but in game, none of that matters. Despite the immersiveness of the game I know it's just that, a game.

 

[Rutnier Nodarse]

I'm arachnophobic myself, but normally game spiders don't bother me. These... kinda do. Not like a picture of a real spider (even "cute" ones) where I have a near heart attack, but more on the level of being near a house spider in real life (basically uncomfortable with an aversion). I admit I've put effort into working on my fears, which I think all people should do when afflicted with a phobia. It's a long, slow process, but I think it's worth it since it's started generalizing to other bugs seen up close and personal. Phobias can do that. Still, I think it's more constructive to just pick them off with arrows or magic than it is to turn them into something else. It is, after all, a game. Consider it a way to train yourself for real life. Otherwise you could go to a shrink and pay out the nose for basically the same service if you want to try VR treatment.

To be honest, I'm only freaked out by certain kind of spiders such as the Tarantulas and Widows which give me sudden if not instant panic attacks. So mix both of them in Skyrim and what do you get? A FROSTBITE SPIDER.

 

[Rensenhito]

Might want to check out this mod then. Replaces all spiders with Bears

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=28

Hang on, hang on, hang on.
Does anyone else remember Unforgotten Realms? Holy crap Mike, it's a Spider-Bear? If this is some kind of stealth tribute, I'm so totally all over it.

 

[pppppppppppppppppp]

Sorry bud, but if you can't mod it, I don't see it as an issue they should deal with.

I mean, if you were scared of heights, should we ask them to make a patch to level the terrain? Should they make a patch to remove the Kajiit for people who are scared of cats? [insert more straw arguments here]

The game is what it is, take it or leave it. It's not the developer's job to cater to your specific needs. Mods on the other hand....

 

[pppppppppppppppppp]

Should they make an optional patch to replace window curtains with bears?

Yes.

Yes they should.

*starts writing to Bethesda*

 

[StrixMaxima]

Hmm, spiders do not "jump on your face in real life". 99% of them are much more scared of you than you are of them. The remaining 1% are freaking nuts, but they are rare, such as our local Brazilian Wandering Spider, which is, in fact, a spawn of Astaroth bent on destroying all life on the planet. Those babies try to jump and bite anything in their immediate perimeter, from insects to horses and cars.

Since you are probably not Brazilian like me, though, feel safe knowing that pretty much all spiders you will even encounter in your life will scurry away from you as fast as their spindly legs can make it.